Re: PHP 5.1

LS>>the safe guard is that you only have: LS>># static labels to jump to That's not a safeguard, since you still can jump to any label. LS>># that you can only jump in the current scope This is a safeguard, buit not enough of that, since you still can jump into various control blocks. LS>>now tell me that exceptions dont allow for much more drastic jumps in your LS>>code that will not be able to easily be detected (in most cases with a LS>>simple search in your current file) No, they do not. You can not exception to abritrary point of the code. You can go either to the end of the function or to the end of the try block. That's the whole difference - you can't just go to random place in the code, you have to maintain structure. With goto, you can jump into random blocks of code - some of which make certain assumprions about the environment, like foreach, switch, catch and maybe more. So either you have severly limit goto (to the point it's more like break in Perl - with which concept I could live) - or have a lot of weird troubles. LS>>and again if all you want to do is a single jump, why on earth would LS>>you want people to be forced to throw an exception, which they have no LS>>intention of using. Because you usually don't want "single jump" - you want cleanup after resource allocation or something like that. try/catch may not be the only solution for every case in existance - I just was surprised by the claim that excepctions are worse than other methods. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115